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JEFF LAMBERT WINGFIELD

Montclair State University

Adjunct Professor / Box Office Manager

Producer/Writer/Director/Actor

AEA * SAG/AFTRA * AFT

EDUCATION/ACADEMIC DEGREES

* Certified High Education Certificate HARVARD 2023

* MA Theatre Studies Montclair State University 2020

* BFA in Theatre: Acting/Directing Montclair State University 1990

TEACHING: MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY, Montclair, NJ

Courses: 2021 - 2025

THTR 150: Introduction to Theatrical Medium  2021-2025

THTR 151: Performing Playwrights of Color 2023

THTR 100: Acting I 2025

PRODUCER: Montclair State University:  The Department of Theatre and Dance Virtual Festival 2020 - 2021

Monitor and Manage the collaborative effort between the Department of Theatre and Dance, the Cali School of Music, the School of Communication and Media, and Arts and Cultural Programming at the College of the Arts in producing the talent of Montclair State University students’ gone virtual.

Artistic Director, Producer, Writer, and Director 2010 - Present: J. WINGFIELD LLC production Film Shorts

Anyone Who Ever Loved  2024/2025 WINNER: Art Film Spirit Award, Arthouse Festival of Beverly Hills, and Chicago Filmmaker Award.

ME & MINE     2022 Philadelphia Film Festival Finalist

Reparations       2022 Montclair State University

FEARLESS LOVE 2016-2025 Screen Actors Guild WINNER: Hoboken Film Festival, Best Short Competition, Arthouse Festival of Beverly Hills, and LA Sun Film Fest.

BLOW UP  2012 Screen Actors Guild Manhattan Film Festival Finalist

Charlie’s Place 2010

Competition High 2010

It’s 10 PM        2010

Life Repertory Theatre Company 1990-1995 Artistic Director/Vice President

Mr. 80% by James Sherman Life Repertory Theatre Company 1993

THE LIMBO ROOM by John J. Wooten, Directed by John J, Wooten, Life Repertory Theatre, New York City

FISHING by Michael Weller, Directed by John J, Wooten, Life Repertory Theatre, New York City

BOY’S LIFE by Howard Korder with John J. Wooten Life Repertory Theatre Company 1993

PRODUCER & DIRECTOR:  FILM

ME & MINE     2021

Reparations       2021

FEARLESS LOVE Screen Actors Guild Hoboken Film Festival 2024

Charlie’s Place 2010

Competition High 2010

It’s 10 PM        2010

Blow Up Screen Actors Guild Manhattan Film Festival 2010

FREE-WRITER  2009

Out of Order 2009

DIRECTING:  Life Repertory Theatre Company

Mr. 80% by James Sherman Life Repertory Theatre Company

BOY’S LIFE by Howard Korder with John J. Wooten Life Repertory Theatre Company 1993

ASSISTING DIRECTING:  Montclair State University: The Department of Theatre and Dance

AS YOU LIKE IT by Shakespeare with Avery Glymph Montclair State University Department Theatre & Dance 2021

WEDDING BAND by Alice Childress with Heather Benton Montclair State University Department of Theatre & Dance 2018

BARBECUE by Robert O’Hara with Susan Kerner Montclair State University Department of Theatre & Dance

ASSISTING DIRECTING:   The Irish Repertory Theatre

THE STREETS OF NEW YORK by Dion Boucicault, adaptation, songs & direction by Charlotte Moore 2004​

STAGE MANAGER:

PUSHCART PLAYERS, Ruth Frost, Artistic and Producing Director

Stage Manager/Actor STONE SOUP and OTHER STORIES

THE WHOLE THEATRE – Montclair, New Jersey, Olympia Dukakis, Artistic Director

Baby with the Bathwater by Christopher Durang​

PLAYERS, Montclair State University

The Soft Touch by Neil Cuthbert

ACTOR - PROFESSIONAL STAGE 

THEATREFEST - Montclair State University Summer Theatre, Phil Oesterman, Artistic Director

Actor Tommy Boatwright, The Normal Heart

Actor understudy Levee, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

The Whole Theater, Montclair, NJ, Olympia Dukakis, Artistic Director

DIRECTING:  BFA Program: Montclair State University: The Department of Theatre and Dance

The Son Who Hunted Tigers in Jakarta by Ronald Ribman Montclair State University Department of Theatre & Dance

Sunstroke by Ronald Ribman Montclair State University Department of Theatre & Dance

WRITINGS:

Her Mimesis 2020 Crossroad Theatre Finalist 2021

ME & MINE     2019

Reparations       2019

FEARLESS LOVE 2016 Screen Actors Guild Hoboken Film Festival

House of Charlie 2014 Yale University & Arizona State play finalist

Bridges to Cross or Burn 2014

BLOW UP 2012 Screen Actors Guild - Manhattan Film Festival

Charlie’s Place 2010

Competition High 2010

It’s 10 PM        2010

STRICKEN 1998                                                                                                                                          

Lovers, Heroes, and Cowards 1998 MTV Pilot Serial Consideration

ACTING: NEW YORK THEATRE

Bartender, Rollins, WINGMAN by Robert Coles and John Wooten, 29th Street Repertory Theatre, NYC

Preston, THE LIMBO ROOM by John J. Wooten, Directed by John J. Wooten, Life Repertory Theatre, New York City

Rory, FISHING by Michael Weller, Directed by John J, Wooten, Life Repertory Theatre, New York City

REGIONAL THEATRE ACTOR

Hoke, DRIVING MISS DAISY by Alfred Uhry, Directed by Dawn Wilczynski Afanador, African Globe, Newark Symphony Hall

Bernie, Last of The Red-Hot Lovers by Neil Simon, Directed by Dawn Wilczynski Afanador, African Globe, Newark Symphony Hall, (Nominee Best New Jersey Actor in an Equity Production) 2002

Lymon, The Piano Lesson by August Wilson, Directed by Eric Ruffin, African Globe, Newark Symphony Hall

Waiter, PRELUDE TO A KISS by Craig Lucas, Directed by Mona Hennessy, 12 Miles West, Montclair, NJ

Prosper, HAITI by Keith Reddin, Directed by Brian Shnipper, 12 Miles West, Montclair, NJ

Tommy Boatwright, The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer, Directed by Phil Oesterman, Producing and Artistic Director, Theatrefest, Montclair State University

Stone Soup and Other Stories PUSHCART PLAYERS’, 1991-1993

Tiresias, ANTIGONE by Bertolt Brecht and Sophocles, Directed by Dean Geoffrey Newman, Montclair State University (ACFT nominee)

Emerson, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill with Loretta Devine, Phil Oesterman, Artistic Director, Theatrefest, Montclair State University

Levee, Understudy, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom by August Wilson, directed by Howard Davies, Phil Oesterman, Producing Director, Theatrefest, Montclair State University

Mr. Morse, THE HOT L BALTIMORE by Lanford Wilson, Directed by Gordon Edelstein, Montclair State University (ACFT finalist)

Sam, MASTER HAROLD and the boys by Athol Fugard, Ramon Louis Delgado, Director, Montclair State University (ACFT nominee)

Stage Manager, SPEAKEASY – A MUSICAL CABARET, Created and Directed by Eric Diamond, Montclair State University

Count Antonio, THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY, Directed by Bruce Goodrich, Montclair State University

An Officer, The Accidental Death of an Anarchist, by playwright Dario Fo, and directed by Montclair State University

Tesson, FORTUNE’S END by John J. Wooten, Directed by John J. Wooten, Montclair State University

Second God, The Good Woman of Setzuan, by Bertolt Brecht, Ramon Louis Delgado, Director, MSU

Clorox, The Me Nobody Knows, by Herb Schapiro, Robert H. Livingston, and Stephen M. Joseph, Director by Ellen Saylor, Montclair State University

Joseph Asagai, A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, Directed by Doretta Berry, Montclair State University

Skeeter, THE ROOT OF CHAOS, by Douglas Soderberg, Directed by Steve Beebe, Montclair State University

Patron of the “Three Pigeons,” She Stoops to Conquer, by Oliver Goldsmith, Directed by Suzanne Trauth, Montclair State University

Southern Minister, SOLID! by William & Patrice Franklin, Directed by Patrice Franklin, The Whole Theatre, Montclair, New Jersey

Mathis, THE EXECUTION, by Andrew Young, Directed by Steve Gravatt, The Ironbound Theatre, Newark, New Jersey

Felix, The Odd Couple, by Neil Simon, Directed by Bernard McCoy Terry, The Averett Theatre Players, Danville, Virginia

Purlie, Purlie Victorious, by Ossie Davis, Directed by Bernard McCoy Terry, The Averett Theatre Players, Danville, Virginia

FILM and TELEVISION ACTOR

Wally, FREE-WRITER by Evelyn Larrison, “Group A Production” Montclair State University

Professor, Out of Order “Group A Production” by and directed by 2009

United Nations Member, The Interpreter, directed by Sydney Pollack, Universal Pictures & Working Title Films 2005

Bolean, Pump Boys, directed by Robert Kranzlin, Kranzlinear Productions, An Independent Film, Sundance 2002

Detective Sleuther, Garbage, directed by Rob Moretti, Film Guys Films 1997

Policeman, Twelve Monkeys with Bruce Willis, Directed by Terry Gilliam, Universal Pictures & Atlas Entertainment, 1995

Mike, Mr. Lee, Directed by Greg Pak, 1996 Audience Festival Favorite, Asian American Film Festival, Malaysia 1995 Finalist, Student Film Category, WorldFest-Charleston Int’l Film Festival, 1995 Special Jury Citation Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film & Video Festival

Technician, COSBY, Directed by Don Scardino, NBC, with the FU FIGHTERS, 1998

Extra, As the World Turns, Directed by Christopher Goutman & Michael Kerner, 1996 – 1998

Officer Lovingood, ALL MY CHILDREN, directed by Christopher Goutman & Henry Kaplan, ABC, recurring under five performer, 1991- 94

Extra, Guiding Light, Directed by JoAnne Sedwick & Roy B. Steinberg, 1994-1996

Extra, Another World, Directed by Maria Wagner & Habib Azar, CBS, 1996-1998

COMMERCIALS:   Principal spokesman.  Tape available.

INDUSTRIAL FILM: Principal performer. Tape available.

AWARDS:

    * Nomination New Jersey Best Actor in a Play Regional Theatre 2002

    *(Dennis K. Macdonald BFA Acting Award)

    *Irene Ryan XXII A.C.T.F. Finalist ‘90

    *Irene Ryan XX A.C.T.F. Candidate ’88

TRAINING:

    Acting:                     Jerome Rockwood, Apollo & Olympia Dukakis               

    Technique:               Susan Shaw with Alexa L. Fogel

    Musical Comedy:    Eric Diamond

    Soap Technique:     Penny Templeton (Personal Coach)

    Commercials:          Louie Zorich

    Voice & Dialects:     Don Sobolick and Gordon Jacoby

    Stage Combat:        T.J. Glenn

    Movement:              Gerry McIntyre, Kerry Margolis & Chuck Davis

REFERENCE:

Charlotte Moore, Artistic Director, Irish Repertory Theatre, jeanmoor@aol.com, 212-255-0270

Eric Diamond, Professor, Theatre and Dance, Montclair State University, diamonde@montclair.edu, 973-655-3120

Ciaran O’Reilly, Producing Director, Irish Repertory Theatre, ciaran@irishrep.org, 212-255-0270

Jessica Brater, Assistant Professor, Theatre and Dance, Montclair State University, braterj@montclair.edu.

John Wooten, Producing Director, Kean University, Premiere Stages, jwooten@kean.edu, 908-737-4360 or 908-737-4636.

Julie Potter, former General Manager of The Irish Repertory Theatre and The York Theatre, jwilliamsny@yahoo.com, 914-318-2498

Randy Mugleston, Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance, Montclair State University, muglestonr@montclair.edu, 973-655-7343

Anthony Mazzocchi, Director, John J. Cali School of Music, mazzocchia@montclair.edu, 973-655-5226

Gerald Fitzhugh, Superintendent City of Orange Township, fitzhuge@orange.k12.nj.us, 973-715-1643